Portable fence



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ENOCH H. ALDEN, OF ALEXANDRIA, MINNESOTA.

PORTABLE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,001, dated February 2'?, 1883.

Application led November 3,1882. (No model.) A

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ENOCH H. ALDEN, of

Alexandria,in the county of Douglas and State f which is well calculated to resist wind-storms.

A Arepresent the panels ofthe fence. These panels are each formed of the posts B B', cenbands d d.

ter wooden rail, U, and upper and lower wires, D D. y The posts B are provided, near their upper ends, with the eyes or staples a, while the posts B are provided, near their upper ends, with the hooks b, that are adapted to be hooked into the eyes a, as shown, for holding the panels of the fence together at the top. The posts B B are made short and blunt at their lower ends, and when the fence is set up are held clear of the ground by the short stakes E E, of wood or iron, driven into the ground, the posts being held to the stakes by the iron rings or The stakesE E are driven diagonally into the ground and hold the posts of the different panels at opposite angles, as shown, so that when locked together at the top the panels brace each other, and thus make the fence very staunch, so that it will resist all ordinary wind-storms. By connecting the adjacent panels of the fence by hooks and eyes it will be seen that each panel may be opened as a gate.

The principal advantages of this fence are that it is very cheap, owing to the small amount of material used, very strong, owing to the fact that the panels brace each other, and very durable, owing to the fact that all nailing is avoided and that the posts are held free ot' the ground, and the fence 'may be very easily put up and as easily taken down, and can thus be moved from place to place at a comparatively small outlay of time, labor, and expense.

1 do not limit myself to the use of wire or metallic top and bottom rails (whether plain or barbed) in combination with the center rail and end posts, as light wooden top and bottom rails may at times be employed-as, for instance, in forming panels to be used as gates, for more convenient handling thereof; but in general the barbed-wire rails D, as shown, are to be preferred.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

ln a portable fence, the combination,` with the panels A, each composed of the short inclined posts B B', center rail, U, wires D, and hooks and eyes a b, secured to the posts, of the inclined stakes E and r1ngs d, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

ENOGH H. ALDEN.

Witnesses A. G. SEXTON, A. P. Looms. 

